Erykah Badu's goals are intentionally unreachable

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 991 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Erykah Badu is best known for her music career, but her resume is much more diverse than that. She's an actor, who can be seen now in The Piano Lesson. She's a doula, who helps welcome new life into the world. And she also helps guide people at the end of their life. She and Rachel talk about intentionally setting unreachable goals, letting go of certain thoughts, and space shuttles.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
0:05.4	RWJF is a national philanthropy working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.
0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:15.4	Well, I know the answer to this question.
0:18.1	No, you don't.
0:19.3	Okay. You're right.
0:22.2	Do you think there's more to reality than we can see or touch?
0:25.9	No.
0:27.3	What?
0:28.8	See, you thought you knew that.
0:31.0	I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard.
0:33.9	The game where cards control the conversation.
0:38.7	Each week, my guest chooses questions at random from a deck of cards.
0:43.4	Pick a card one through three.
0:45.2	Questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped them.
0:49.3	So each album is very, very special.
0:51.8	My guest this week is Erica Badu.
0:54.6	But I just, as an artist, I just want to do more every time.
0:58.8	Before we started rolling, I did what I always do with guests.
1:02.3	I reminded Erica about the game and how this wasn't going to be a, quote, normal interview.
1:08.1	Erica responded, good, because I don't do normal interviews. And it definitely
1:12.7	wasn't. She sees the world differently than most people. And I don't mean to get all woo-woo,
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